Re: Virtualbox Lenny Guest - Screen resize and Seamless mode

[Mark Allums <mark@allums.com>]

Jack Schneider wrote:
> On Mon, 03 Aug 2009 16:33:32 -0500
> Mark Allums <mark@allums.com> wrote:
>
> > Chris wrote:
> > > On Monday 03 August 2009, goran@dobosevic.com wrote:
> > > > Chris wrote:
> > > > > I am trying to get Screen resize and Seamless mode working on
> > > > > Lenny guest systems to no avail.
> > > > >
> > > > > I have tried insalling the guest-utils packages, as well as the
> > > > > guest-additions the manual way with m-a.  They install fine, but
> > > > > sreen-resize and seamless mode don't work.
> > > > >
> > > > > Does anyone have this working at all?  I've tried various
> > > > > xorg.conf files with the video driver and no screen resolutions.
> > > > >
> > > > > I am running virtualbox-ose 2.1.4 from lenny-backports on the
> > > > > host.
> > > > >
> > > > > Thanks,
> > > > >
> > > > > Chris
> > > > I also have same problem.
> > > > I have Debian Sid LXDE, Debian Sid XFCE and Debian Sid KDE as a
> > > > guest. They were first Lenny and screen size was to big so I was
> > > > edit xorg.conf and it was fine. After upgrade to Sid all of them
> > > > have to small screen with black frame around (800x600 on 15"
> > > > laptop, native resolution is 1024x768). Editing xorg.conf doesn't
> > > > help any more. Bye,
> > > > Goran Dobosevic
> > > > Hrvatski: www.dobosevic.com
> > > >   English: www.dobosevic.com/en/
> > > Lets see if anyone has it working!  I have some SIDUX guests
> > > (09-01, 09-02) that work...
> > I have the same problem.  An update to xorg occuring at approximately 
> > the same time as an upgrade of VirtualBox has caused VBox to turn off 
> > dynamic resizing, and nothing I can think of will bring it back. 
> > Editing xorg.conf is futile. Reinstalling the additions does nothing. 
> > The screen resolutions allowed are 800x600 or 640x480.  It is very 
> > frustrating.
> >
> > Mark Allums
> Hi, folks
> I'm running VirtualBox 3.0.2 not the Debian -OSE edition, but downloaded
> from the Sun Site..  Sun has precipitated a good number of changes,
> Guest Additions work much better... I have resized windows in M$, SuSE, 
> without incident.
> uname -r >2.6.26-2-amd64
> FWIW  
> Jack


I am Vista 64 SP2, VBox 3.0.2 (non-free), Debian amd64 guest, Squeeze 
with a few Sid bits.  This includes Sid X.org, GNOME, and GCC 4.3.3, 
with Debian kernel 2.6.30-1 (which is Sid version of 2.6.30.5).

# uname -a
Linux patricia 2.6.30-1-amd64 #1 SMP Mon Aug 3 12:28:22 UTC 2009 x86_64 
GNU/Linux

Mark Allums